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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a bill that made Missouri a slave state, and Maine a free state. This was done to ease tension between the North and South. -
Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis
The Tariff of 1828 was a ploy used to elect Andrew Jackson into office. The Nullification Crisis was a crisis in which South Carolina declared the tariff unconstitutional and didn't want to take part in it. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave uprising that killed around 50 people, taking place in Virginia. The leader, Nat Turner, was later tried and killed. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was another attempt to ease tensions between the North and South. This ended in California becoming a free state, the abolished slave trade, and new territory -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and routes used to navigate slaves into free states. The height of its popularity was peaked from 1850 to 1860. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act that involved creating Kansas and Nebraska in order to open up new farms and create the Transcontinental Railroad. -
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'Bleeding Kansas'
Bleeding Kansas was a bunch of violent confrontations deciding on whether Kansas should be a slave state or not. This was followed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
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Dred Scott Decision
This has to do with a guy named Dred Scott wanting to pass a law to let slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
A raid on an armory made by abolitionist John Brown in an attempt to start a slave revolt. Brown failed, and was killed.
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Secession of the South
This was when things reached its boiling point and the South was like, "I'm out." and 11 states seceded to eventually form the Confederacy.
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Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was a presidential election between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge. Abraham Lincoln won the election. -
Fort Sumter is Fired Upon
Lt. Henry S. Farley fired a gun at Fort Sumter and the war and fighting and stuff started. It is known as the "shot heard around the world" or something.
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